Time.

how does this tie into the concept of parallel universes? would it be theoretically possible to re-live in past or future time periods occurring in parallel timelines?

and if so would this imply that something larger than time holds multiple different timelines? so our timeline is separate from an infinity-1 number of timelines, all running parallel to this time. some running forward, others running backward.

but they'd all be contained inside a meta-universe or multiverse?

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Yes, all working together in harmony.

Beautiful, isn't it?!

A scalar, 1-dimensional quantity.

Or is it?

We can't be sure what exists (if anything) within the world of subatomic particles nor beyond our own universe and/or multiverses. If we could look at the bigger picture, maybe what we know as the 'timeline' isn't really a line at all.

Locally, to our own perceptions - it is a straight line and uniform as we can assume that today seems to go by just as quickly or slowly as yesterday did give or take; however is this just a 'local illusion'? A very large circle, for instance, can appear to be locally straight if you 'zoom in' at a point...and if we could chart time over entire eons could it appear not be straight at all, but curved, perhaps even a circle of infinite radius?

Taking this a step further, Albert Einstein said in his later years that the past, present and future all exist simultaneously. Maybe he was right. Much the same as mathematics does a fairly decent job of modelling the universe, perhaps time is actually a fractal: a 2-dimensional entity that exists within itself encompassing all, whilst self-replicating eternally from a single complex quadratic polynomial.

It's possible that time is an illusion and we have been given the mathematical clue. The square root of -1.

i.

He was right - a mushroom growing - an explosion with mushroom could -
A growing crystal - a tree growing - We are privileged to view the "event unfold"
in what we call time - a visitor from another planet may see the mushroom grow as fast as the explosion - he may see green explosions all over the Earth. They are trees growing - Similarly we can slow down the video of an explosion the watch it grow. Time is "our" thing. Any living creature, rocks don't do time.

"Albert Einstein said in his later years that the past, present and future all exist simultaneously."

It's also how a dog knows that his owner will arrive home -

Events have polarity - the beginning is the positive and the end is negative. It happens instantly - but we live inside of it (we are in fact part of it) and experience what we have to call "time" until it "reaches" completion.

"Albert Einstein said in his later years that the past, present and future all exist simultaneously."

It's also how a dog knows that his owner will arrive home -

I agree.

Sure. Do you know the Event beginning all else?

does it ever truly reach completion? or does it just move into a new beginning?

let there be light

Before that there was no speed of light limit in the universe.

Things were moving faster than light until the speed limit was created, which caused the end of the inflation period.